August 11, 2007 – 7:27 pm
The season got underway today with a fascinating game between Spurs and Sunderland - wasn’t really a high quality game, and both teams looked rusty. What stood out for me was Sunderland’s determination to not make it easy for Spurs. McShane in particular was brilliant in defence, and there was only one major weak moment […]
The Beeb is opening its archives on India and Pakistan on the occasion of 60 years of India and Pakistan’s independence. Among the archives, I’m told, is rare radio footage. It’s a closed archive trial, and being a history buff, I thought I’d sign up for it. Then came the shocker: Access to the archives […]
WTF were they thinking? This is entirely a media created mistake: they hyped up the fact that the Gandhi letter was going to be auctioned at Christies to such an extent, that the purchase of Gandhi’s last letter became almost a face-saving exercise for the government. Of course, the ministers who make these decisions don’t […]
is the word that came to mind when I read a post about the Sanjay Dutt verdict at Mutiny.in - do read it here. Of course, one doesn’t know the extent of Dutt’s involvement, and the focus has always been on playing that down, and showcasing Dutt as naive (update: a naive 35yr old who […]
I wasn’t planning to write a review of I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone since I was so tired I slept through a significant part of it, but the 60 percent of the film I saw still haunts me. I missed all the connections, didn’t get the storyline, but the cinematography and the treatment of […]
Note: The film is being screened again on the 29th at 10am at Siri Fort (I intend to watch it again) so spoilers after “More”(below).
She & He is a film about limits which frequently makes that leap into the surreal with the incorporation of absurdist elements. It’s clearly a writers films with short, sharp and […]
Attended a discussion on Devdas at Cinefan (hadn’t intended to, but I was given the wrong ticket), where Meghnad Desai compared the three versions of Devdas that he has seen (the sign at the ticket counter said “Devdas is not a film, it’s a discussion). Among other things, he mentioned that Dilip Kumar was under […]
I decided NOT sit in the front row if I intended to watch five films in the day. I did, so I didn’t.
Important to note that if you’re buying tickets, you MUST check them. I’ve had problems each time I’ve bought tickets - first time, I wasn’t given a ticket for one particular show, and […]
New year, same old problems. I walked into Siri Fort 1to watch Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff, to find someone arguing with the organizers about being allowed to take a bottle of water inside. It’s entirely random - they allow water in for some shows, not for others.
Later, when I went to buy tickets for a […]
If you’ve stayed in a hostel, you know what I mean.
Anyway, the latest crazy story (the last was Aishwarya eating chocolate ice cream with pineapple toppings) is about my sister.
She woke up at 5:00am today, got ready in half an hour (a new record), and walked out on to the street at 5:30am to look […]
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